DR. TEMPERANCE BRENNAN (Emily Deschanel) is a highly skilled forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute and writes novels as a sideline. When the standard methods of identifying a body are useless when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that CSI gives up - law enforcement calls in Brennan for her uncanny ability to read clues left behind in the victim's bones. A former Army sniper, Booth mistrusts science and scientists when it comes to solving crimes. But even he cannot deny that the combination of his people-smarts and Brennans scientific acumen make them a formidable team.